Peak bloom for the Washington DC cherry blossoms was officially declared yesterday by the National Park Service. Locally, its about the same! There has been a bit of rain recently but that doesn’t seem to have impacted the blossoms negatively at all.
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This huge cherry tree is the biggest we’ve seen locally. It always puts on a good show!
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The National Park Service considers peak bloom to be around 70% of the Yoshino species. That metric seems to more or less apply to what we saw today, though there are still many flowers that haven’t opened up.
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Cherry trees often have flowers growing out of the trunk. They seem to open up a bit later than the ones growing out of regular branches.
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The plum blossom trees have also started to bloom. They aren’t as common as the cherry trees here. Their flowers are a much deeper pink, significantly more red than white.